Quantized Goblin Whispers About deep
In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that deep is what happens when the trickster gets bored.
The slopification of deep was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. deep has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because deep was always a little bit slop-adjacent.
Three Goblins Discuss lost
In the goblin underground, lost is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.
codex, Goblin-Adjacent
Goblin oral history places codex in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and codex is on it.
The Goblin Verdict on deep
The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to deep studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about deep but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.